Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

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Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/10/09 at 10:35pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkeE3wIt5EU

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#2

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/10/09 at 11:03pm

This is a GEM!

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/10/09 at 11:20pm

There is so much Eighties goodness in that video, it just blows my mind.

Thank you PalJoey!

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 12:39am

That guy grabbing at her ass...what brilliant choreography! How did this show not last?

Thanks for the link, this is fabulous.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 12:44am

Wow. That's a young Charlotte d'Amboise, right?

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:07am

I want that Chess t-shirt.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:08am

With all this talk of Alice Ripley's off-stage craziness, I would love to see her as Margaret White.

Can you imagine that "And Eve Was Weak"?

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Updated On: 8/12/09 at 01:08 AM

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:12am

People crab about the bitchiness of people like Michael Reidel, but I loved the olden days where reviewers WOULD go for the jugular when a show was a piece of crap. Now any cavalcade of bad buzz and mediocre songs can sputter across the country and park on Broadway for MONTHS.

Ah. There's never BEEN another musical like her!
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#9

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:46am

Actually, those are the London rehearsals which took place prior to their London mounting which was BEFORE the show came to Broadway.

After the "Do Me a Favor" sequence, Barbara Cook is briefly seen rehearsing with Linzi. Barbara Cook played Margaret White during the London incarnation of the musical. Betty Buckley took over the role for its Broadway incarnation.

Also, in the "Out for Blood" dance break rehearsal with Charlotte, you can spot Scott Wise and Joey McKneely among the guys.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:01am

The first reviewer here is my favorite - I love the part where he points out that the only furniture in the house was one chair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S191a99wUc8&feature=related

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:26am

my favorite quotes-

"It's Bye, Bye Birdie gone bonkers"

"It's Grease meets Slime, Slime wins"

"Pig, Pig, Blood, Blood, Pig, Pig, Blood"

"You could take the money, and through it"

"One simply wants to hide when Carrie and Mama sing a screaming duet about menstruation"


And not to be mean, but why do Linzi's eyes look so strange in those videos?

Updated On: 8/11/09 at 02:26 AM

#12

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:43am

This song...quite guilty pleasure for me. It's so catchy. The choreography, like everything else in the final production, is mind-boggling irrelevant.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:35am

I want that Chess t-shirt.

I want the Cats tshirt!

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:39am

Charlotte D'Amboise, Sally Ann Triplett & Linzi Hateley... wow all 3 have moved on to be the leading ladies of Broadway & West End. And weirdly enough I think all 3 of them still have the voice AND the dancing abilities! AND all 3 are Roxies! Wudnt it be great if they can all be in a reunion of some sort!

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:45am

they should really do a revival.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 8:26am

That they should....

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#17

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 9:28am

Ahhh, Sherlock Brody, of course that's Barbara Cook there, so of course it's London.

I bow to your superior sleuthing skills.

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#18

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:03am

The show never played London.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:14am

Sally Ann Triplett & Linzi Hateley

And Sally Ann recently replaced Linzi in the West End's MAMMA MIA

I'd love for these two talents to return to Broadway in some form!

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:26am

Are you sure the show never played London?

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:27am

The show never played London.

You're absolutely right but you do know that to most Americans... anywhere in the UK is always referenced as London.

So to many, CARRIE had its World Premiere in London.

Period.

Now... to be exact, CARRIE World Premiered at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, which is quite some distance from London.

Updated On: 8/11/09 at 10:27 AM

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:39am

Yeah, I'm with Brody. When did MamasTypingBad come back, anyway?

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:44am

One of my biggest theatrical regrets is not seeing Carrie on Broadway when I had the opportunity to. I opted to see Chess instead that night.

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re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 10:59am

I think my favorite part of ALL of these bootlegs clips is Charlotte D'Amboise's dance break in "In." I don't care how bad the show is, girl is fierce.

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#25

re: Rehearsal for CARRIE, Broadway 1988

Posted: 8/11/09 at 11:04am

I never understood all of the unneeded pelvic thrusting in the choreography for this show. It's like they're raping the air or something.

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